To be honest I don't know why anyone is getting so up themselves about this.
He is a really young guy.
He is hot headed now and then; and the consummate professional the rest of the time.
Really cannot see how I would manage that at his age in his position.
His situation is totally different from Button's, for example.
Both his upbringing and his racing life.
Button was touted as a prospect for the future when he entered F1, Hamilton was the second coming, and he pretty much lived up to it.
Journeyman versus mercurial genius, if you like.
I am happy Button wound up in the right car at the right time to snatch a championship, but let it take nothing away from Hamilton that he has wound up in the wrong car.
If he were in Red Bull right now, I am certain he would be challenging Vettel as strongly as possible.
At the end of the day I tune into F1 to see great drivers driving the ass off their cars. No matter what they keep doing to 'hobble' the teams, that is what most of us want to see.
Without drivers like Hamilton it would be a much poorer spectacle, and I could not care less how hot headed he has to occasionally be to maintain his passion.
In light of this I am sure there will be team orders about talking to the press immediately post race.
It was a leading question, and he answered with humour instead of just walking off.
It makes an enormous difference whether he was being serious or not.
He was not, and he is as entitled to make a joke under pressure as the next man. We use humour to relieve stress in this country, we are not so up ourselves that we cannot talk freely.
All power to the lad, he is one of the few drivers who could match the careers of the likes of Schumacher and Senna. He is unfortunate to be driving in an era when external control has entered the equation, both physically in the cars and generally in the media and hype.
